[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin at gmail.com
Mon May 9 23:54:13 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> On 10/05/11 00:46, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Brian J Mingus<
>> brian.mingus at colorado.edu>wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Neil Harris<neil at tonal.clara.co.uk>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 09/05/11 23:57, Platonides wrote:
>> >>>> Just create your own tld ;)
>> >>>>
>> >>> Sadly, .wp wouldn't pass the new gTLD process: new gTLDs must have at
>> >>> least three characters.
>> >>>
>> >>> -- Neil
>> >>>
>> >>> How about:
>> >> http://en.wp.wmf
>> >
>> > Would many people recognize or remember "wmf"?  I suspect that, in terms
>> of
>> > brand recognition, "Wikipedia">  "Wikimedia">  "Wikimedia Foundation">
>> > "WMF".
>> >
>> > Kirill
>>
>> en.wiki or en.wikipedia would do just fine
>>
>> -- Neil
>
>
> Getting a .wiki TLD for our projects would be nice indeed.
>
> Kirill
>

Although, on the other hand, would this leave us too open to imitators,
given that "wiki" is not a trademark?  Consider the scenario of a group
like, say, 4chan registering eng.wiki and filling it with assorted shock
content; enough people might mistakenly visit the fake site to generate
considerable bad publicity for us.

Kirill


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